Sharp County record., 1887-09-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Goth inst, and will have great ceio'
bration. 1t has 5000 population and mas
been declared city of the second class
SUPPORTERS of Ferdinand at Sofia as.
sembled by thousands on the 18TH, cheereu
for the Prince and smashed the windows
of opposition newspaper Offices
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared fifth dividend of ten per cent''
making in all fifty per cent. on the claims
proved of $365,S65 against the Richmond
National Bank, of Richmond, Ind.
GETzEIN, the crack pitcher of the De-
troit Base Ball Club, was invited to the
Russell House, Detroit, Mich, on the even
ing of the 18th, and was presented by MS
friends with $500 gold watch.
ApvIcEs from Findlay, O., say that
| Captain Joseph F. Gutzweller, assistant
sergeant-at- arms of the National House Oh
Representatives, died at that place on the
18th.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND is ex-
pected to return to Washington from Ar
kansas October l.
SIX Norwegian officers and fourteen
pnardsmen have left Christiana for Chl-
cago to attend the military encampment.
A MATCH race for $1,000 has been ar
ranged to take place off Marble head, Mass
on the 7th, between General b. +. Buffers
Yacht, America, and VIM. F. Yields
Gitina. The course will be twenty miles
to the windward and return.
A DISPATCH from Agram states that
DR.. Starcevics, Croatian member OF the
Hungarian Diet, has been sentenced to SIX
years penal servitude and deprived OF his
titles of doctor and advocate, for Sedi-
tion.
McCABE, the Wayne County (Pa.) mur-
derer, who escaped from the Honesdale
iail last June, was captured at Port Jer-
Wis. N. Y, on the morning of the 18th, by
the sheriff with posse of forty men. He
| was in a barn near his old home. he had
two revolvers on his person, but showed no
fight.
A FREIGHT train on the Jersey Central
railroad collided with coal train which
was standing at Greenbrook, N. j., on the
18th. James Flood, the freight engineer,
was buried beneath the engine and
crushed beyond recognition. One freight
car and twenty-five coal cars were
wrecked.
| JACOB A. TALBOT, young negro, coHl-
mitted suicide at Baltimore, Nd, by hang
ing himself at his home in the northwest
ern section of the city. He said he was
deeply impressed with the BELIEF that
Ross, who was hanged recently, had
s'found the true way of reaching Heaven
| and his only wish was to die like him and
follow him to the home Of the blessed"
GENERAL Won WERDER of German war
fame, is dead.
AT French military banquet at Tou-
louise, on the 14th, some very fiery speeches
| for revenge were made.
SUNSET Cox thinks Cleveland will be the
presidential candidate, that Carlisle VIII
be the Speaker and that Congress will pass
tariff bill. oo
THE Government purchased S4,l99,5OO
41.2 per cent bonds on the 14th, at prices
ranging from 1878 to 1854.
GLADSTONE and other Liberals are going
to stump Ireland.
THOMAS QUINN threatens to sue the Lon
don Standard for publishing derogatory
article copied from the New York Wortd.
THE Illinois State Supreme Court, on the
14th, delivered un-zss- in ths Anarchist
w e, affirnins od5i 5iERGHaq EGa snent or-Vae court
below, the execution to take place Novem-
Der II.
THE steamer ETHIOPIA, which sailed
from Glasgow September s, has on board
a party of enthusiastic Scotch yachtsmen
who are coming to New York for the pur-
pose of viewing the races for the America
cup.
CoNeREssMAN-ELECTN NICHOLAS t. KANE
of West Troy, N. Y, died on the evening
of the 14th, Of consumption, aged 1orty-
five. He was elected to Congress last
year.
Two brothers, named Juergensen, who
| returned to their native village, Alherlsm,
on the island of Fohr, four months ago,
after an absence of twenty years, have
been ordered to leave Prussian territory.
If Manitoba does not at once back down
from her position on the Red River rail,
way. the Dominion Government will
| withhold the payment Of the next half
| years subsidy to the Manitoba Govern
ment,
AcKERMAN & SKINNER, boots and shoes;
]. Atwell, dry goods, and ID. r. Stone,
children's shoes, at Syracuse, N. y, were
damaged 100000 by fire on the night ol
the 14th; insurance, $4,000.
MAJOR ToMlsICs and Captain SCHNEIDER
have been arrested for wholesale swlnd'
ling in the commissiariat of the Hun :
garian Honveds. Captain SCHNEIDER SUBJ
| soorontlv hanoed himself in prison.
THE long-desired charter of the new Ma
tional Trade Assembly of iron-workers has
been granted by the general executive
board of the knights of Labor, and the
threatened withdrawal of that craft from
the order is thus prevented.
E. w. TODD, proprietor of the New YORK
Stock Company (limited), big bucket
shop, was arrested on the l4th, charged by
John A. Harrison with keeping gamb'
ling-house. Harrison had lost money in
the place and claimed that no real stock
was dealt in.
WHILE two ladies of Santa Fe, N. NJ,
were enjoying morning ride on the his
toric old Fort Marcy, on the 14th, ,one OF them
discovered a silver coin at her feet. On
loosening the earth for space Of several
inches around, she was so fortunate as tc
uncover about $780, chiefly in Mexican
silver, with few United States coins OF
early dates.
JACOB Belize, Consul General from Hon
duras, at New York, has received news by
cable from Tegucigalpa, capital OF the re-
public of Honduras, that President Louis
| !, -. H. , boor raaIaotad with no ODDO